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for your followers who need a visual depiction of what decentralization actually means when it comes to independence and resilience.
The modern NAT-ridden Internet is not amenable to a fully distributed system, unfortunately. The good old days of peer-to-peer protocols are over unless you can get away with requiring IPv6 for all participants.
By the way, the “decentralized” graph in this example is still centralized. There is a single node in the middle that, if hit, would shatter the whole network.
> There is a single node in the middle that, if hit, would shatter the whole network.
thx for the hint, haven't realized that error in the drawing!
"Four eyes see more than two."
At least it doesn't apply to our reality, unless you'd consider the center point as the federation protocol itself.
What is true is that to a certain extent "mega-instances" like mastodon.social or joindiaspora in it's time create such single point of failures.
Yet they never listen ..